Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Assistant Director for Astronomy Austin Edmister gives presentation on the Meridian Circle ...

Anyone who has spent time on the Hill has most likely noticed the white dome peaking out between the Alice Lloyd and Couzens Residence Halls. However, few probably know they are looking at the first ...

The Ann Arbor News reports the university’s Board of Regents has approved the design for a $10 million upgrade to the Detroit Observatory. The building was constructed in 1854 as the school’s ...

UM’s Board of Regents approved the schematic design for a $10-million upgrade to its Detroit Observatory, constructed in 1854 as the university’s first dedicated scientific research lab.

Karen Wight, Detroit Observatory's Project Coordinator, talked about how the observatory changed the University of Michigan and showed some of the original instruments still inside. The Detroit ...

A recent program at the Pittsfield branch of the Ann Arbor District Library further perpetuated the myth that the Detroit Observatory at the University of Michigan is the oldest in the Midwest ...

Michigan State students unearth traces of 142-year-old observatory The foundation of Michigan State's first observatory was discovered this summer after construction workers, drilling hammock ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - The University of Michigan has plans to upgrade the second-oldest building on the Ann Arbor campus. The Ann Arbor News reports the university’s Board of Regents has ...